6:05 PM,
Nov. 2, 2012

Written by

Monica Russo and Judith Browne Dianis
My View

Like clockwork, in the weeks leading up to Election Day, last-minute intimidation tactics are cropping up.

This is part of an unfolding strategy that surfaced back in April, when Florida initiated an effort to purge more than 2,600 suspected noncitizens from the voting rolls, many of whom turned out to be in fact eligible citizens. In Miami, where most of the voters identified on the purge list live, more than 98 percent of 562 people who responded to notice letters proved they were citizens and had been mistakenly placed on the list.